MS SQL Server 2000 SP2 will warn you that the SA password is blank. It also advises you to change it. The service pack has been out for a while now. If you have installed it, this should be a none issue for the most part. Brute force attacks are more difficult to contend with.
I'm a contractor for a well known.gov agency. They do not want FTE personnel. It's easier to get rid of a contractor who does not give the desired results. My boss is a GS-15 Technical and reports to a GS-13 manager. The 45 year old GS-13 resents making less than the 28 year old GS-13 techie working for him. The GS-15 job is a term position. He has to renew every 2 years. This keeps the gov from getting stuck with high paid non management staff.
3 of my coworkers left for.com opportunities and got burned. 2 of them came back to my company and 1 is still out of work (Seems there is no great desire for Novell Admins right now).
The real problems start when they start putting this with other information they have gathered. Suppose camera1 and location "X" records you at 10:354am. At 11:15am you are recorded by Camera9 at location "Y". A quick check of the system reveals that it is 27 miles from "X" to "Y". However, following the speed limit means you should arrive no earlier than 11:28am. Automatic sppeding ticket! OR your drivers license say you way 130 pds. The software syas you weigh 180 pds. Sell that info to a weight loss center to defray the surveillance cost. Automatic SPAM.
Why the War on Drugs is not going away anytime soon.
1. The seizure laws allow police departments to increase the budget. A few good drug bust...and new cruisers, SWAT gear, all kinds of goodies.
A lot of small departments "rely" on this income.
2. Jobs. There are many jobs in law enforcement, drug treatment, legal representation..and others.
What would they do for a living now?
3.Appearances. We've tried to have everyone "JUST SAY NO". They aren't. The anti-drug people cannot back down without losing all credibility.
4.Payoffs. There are to many people getting paid to make sure drugs arrive for sale in this country. Corrupt law enforcement and a racially driven system of prosecution only make matters worse.
5.DRUG DEALERS. They certainly do not want legalization/decriminalization to reduce their profits at the expense of others.
I do think the war on drugs has been doomed from the start. Decriminalization may be the answer. There will be hardcore addicts just as there are alcoholics and nicotine addicts. Use the taxes collected to treat the people.
A lot of online purchases allow you to specify a billing address and a shipping address. Suppose I'm in Va. but ask that it be shipped to Az., as a gift for someone. I guess I'll pay Va. tax. But seriously, I think that if brick and mortar has a sales tax, so should their competitors. The.dot gones are not going to be worse off than they already are. I've made a lot of online purchases and the tax was not the reason, It was the fact no one local had it in stock. The online prices are not that much better! And product returns to a company that disappears overnight...well that's a friggin hassle compared to a local retailer who is more likely to be around this time next year.
Payphone? The area I work and live in does not have many payphones. The ones that are still around are typically damaged from attempted theft of the coinbox or have been vandalized. On top of that Verizon is not installing many new ones because every is using their cellular devices to make calls.
What about having professional jurors. People educated in subjects like psychology and forensics. They could weed out a lot of the BS testimony and make decisions based on technical merits instead of the loudest-best dressed attorneys.
Instead of just encrypting data, how about having software that splits files into many pieces and then stores them elsewhere. None of the files know of the existence of the other ones. Only the original author has the right key to put the files together again. The files would have randomly generated names and random date time stamps to further obscure their origin and make it harder for others to possibly re-assemble the pieces
Censorware is great for that false sense of security people are so accustomed to here in the good ol' USA. It's great that Johnny will be protected by the smart software from our friends at Mattel. Now we can smoke our crack instead of paying attention to our kids and what they are doing behind closed doors.
I completely agree that parents are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their children. What frightens me is that the government officials are now worming their way into content delivery and or management. The most frightening part is who CONTROLS THE LIST OF FILTERED SITES? Are we going to have the ISA (Internet Security Agency) in charge of determining what is offensive? I'm sure that GWB's idea is to be like Mattel or other "filter" makers and not reveal what they decide to block.The ramifications of this make me shiver uncontrollably. It's scary as hell! The.GOV need's to lets the Parents watch over their kids and get the hell out my home. Gore's idea is no better. Nothing like a bunch of logs to be perused by enemies or do-gooders out to protect the public interest.
I did read before posting. I'm just re-stating the simple fact filtering does not work. Both candidates suck and Nader...Both him and Buchanan should do stand up comedy. The internet is not gonna disappear and the more the government attempts to control it, the more people write open source software to foil the evil politicians and their intent on saving people from themselves.
This is good for a laugh. My 6 year old niece can bypass filter software. I wonder who gets the contract for this "high quality" content restriction software?
I totally agree. VERIZON is piss poor at customer service. I have had ISDN, T-spans, cellular and local service from them and it's murder on the patience. They cannot seem to get anything right. When Bell Atlantic and GTE merged, (Verizon) things got even worse. Since I just moved to an area that was GTE, when I called for a new install...All hell broke loose. They actually write down my address, go to another room (gte computers) to pull up my info, print it and then come back to the room with the printout so they can put it into the Bell Atlantic computers! Then due to the strike, It took 3 F$^#$%^$#@# weeks to get a telephone at my new residence. They do not have any cell sites in the area so my cell phone was useless during that time. My wife was about to kill, kill, kill. VERIZON SUCKS.
The Internet may Big Brothers salvation. No need to investigate anybody. Just look at their web habits and create a nice psych profile. No surfing data on the individual?...they must be technophobic. If they Spend all their time at EBAY...Money to burn. How about to much time at Slashdot....Definite intellectual...kill em all.
Explain to me why I should replace the "Commercial" software in my organization with the "Free" software. My managers refuse to believe that "Free" software has any advantage. They say it cannot be supported or trusted. After all, it's Un-American to give something away to business.
Thats the.GOV for ya'. Spend millions to do nothing in the end. Why don't they make Bill just release all source code for Windows and that crappy Exchange mail server. Just having everyone review his poorly written/documented code would embarass M$ enough for me.
The micropower radio stations are being contested by the big radio stations who claim that they will interfere with "legitimate" broadcast. So the FCC says yeah to the stations, however Congress may say no because of the Big station lobbyist. The fact that they are suing is a big joke. Their no better than the clowns (RIAA) they are suing. They just want to control the airwaves and force their content only.
Slashdot Mirror
MS SQL Server 2000 SP2 will warn you that the SA password is blank. It also advises you to change it. The service pack has been out for a while now. If you have installed it, this should be a none issue for the most part. Brute force attacks are more difficult to contend with.
How about calling it GNUWindows?
I'm a contractor for a well known .gov agency. They do not want FTE personnel. It's easier to get rid of a contractor who does not give the desired results. My boss is a GS-15 Technical and reports to a GS-13 manager. The 45 year old GS-13 resents making less than the 28 year old GS-13 techie working for him. The GS-15 job is a term position. He has to renew every 2 years. This keeps the gov from getting stuck with high paid non management staff.
.com opportunities and got burned. 2 of them came back to my company and 1 is still out of work (Seems there is no great desire for Novell Admins right now).
3 of my coworkers left for
The real problems start when they start putting this with other information they have gathered. Suppose camera1 and location "X" records you at 10:354am. At 11:15am you are recorded by Camera9 at location "Y". A quick check of the system reveals that it is 27 miles from "X" to "Y". However, following the speed limit means you should arrive no earlier than 11:28am. Automatic sppeding ticket! OR your drivers license say you way 130 pds. The software syas you weigh 180 pds. Sell that info to a weight loss center to defray the surveillance cost. Automatic SPAM.
They should say after every swearing in: Sold to the Highest Bidder!
Maybe Slashdot should offer a FREE Hibachi grill to everyone who replaces the MS OS with *nix.
Why the War on Drugs is not going away anytime soon.
1. The seizure laws allow police departments to increase the budget. A few good drug bust...and new cruisers, SWAT gear, all kinds of goodies.
A lot of small departments "rely" on this income.
2. Jobs. There are many jobs in law enforcement, drug treatment, legal representation..and others.
What would they do for a living now?
3.Appearances. We've tried to have everyone "JUST SAY NO". They aren't. The anti-drug people cannot back down without losing all credibility.
4.Payoffs. There are to many people getting paid to make sure drugs arrive for sale in this country. Corrupt law enforcement and a racially driven system of prosecution only make matters worse.
5.DRUG DEALERS. They certainly do not want legalization/decriminalization to reduce their profits at the expense of others.
I do think the war on drugs has been doomed from the start. Decriminalization may be the answer. There will be hardcore addicts just as there are alcoholics and nicotine addicts. Use the taxes collected to treat the people.
A lot of online purchases allow you to specify a billing address and a shipping address. Suppose I'm in Va. but ask that it be shipped to Az., as a gift for someone. I guess I'll pay Va. tax. But seriously, I think that if brick and mortar has a sales tax, so should their competitors. The .dot gones are not going to be worse off than they already are. I've made a lot of online purchases and the tax was not the reason, It was the fact no one local had it in stock. The online prices are not that much better! And product returns to a company that disappears overnight...well that's a friggin hassle compared to a local retailer who is more likely to be around this time next year.
Payphone? The area I work and live in does not have many payphones. The ones that are still around are typically damaged from attempted theft of the coinbox or have been vandalized. On top of that Verizon is not installing many new ones because every is using their cellular devices to make calls.
What about having professional jurors. People educated in subjects like psychology and forensics. They could weed out a lot of the BS testimony and make decisions based on technical merits instead of the loudest-best dressed attorneys.
I'm sure some group will protest. "It might poison our atmosphere".
Instead of just encrypting data, how about having software that splits files into many pieces and then stores them elsewhere. None of the files know of the existence of the other ones. Only the original author has the right key to put the files together again. The files would have randomly generated names and random date time stamps to further obscure their origin and make it harder for others to possibly re-assemble the pieces
Censorware is great for that false sense of security people are so accustomed to here in the good ol' USA. It's great that Johnny will be protected by the smart software from our friends at Mattel. Now we can smoke our crack instead of paying attention to our kids and what they are doing behind closed doors.
I completely agree that parents are ultimately responsible for the behavior of their children. What frightens me is that the government officials are now worming their way into content delivery and or management. The most frightening part is who CONTROLS THE LIST OF FILTERED SITES? Are we going to have the ISA (Internet Security Agency) in charge of determining what is offensive? I'm sure that GWB's idea is to be like Mattel or other "filter" makers and not reveal what they decide to block.The ramifications of this make me shiver uncontrollably. It's scary as hell! The .GOV need's to lets the Parents watch over their kids and get the hell out my home. Gore's idea is no better. Nothing like a bunch of logs to be perused by enemies or do-gooders out to protect the public interest.
I did read before posting. I'm just re-stating the simple fact filtering does not work. Both candidates suck and Nader...Both him and Buchanan should do stand up comedy. The internet is not gonna disappear and the more the government attempts to control it, the more people write open source software to foil the evil politicians and their intent on saving people from themselves.
This is good for a laugh. My 6 year old niece can bypass filter software. I wonder who gets the contract for this "high quality" content restriction software?
I totally agree. VERIZON is piss poor at customer service. I have had ISDN, T-spans, cellular and local service from them and it's murder on the patience. They cannot seem to get anything right. When Bell Atlantic and GTE merged, (Verizon) things got even worse. Since I just moved to an area that was GTE, when I called for a new install...All hell broke loose. They actually write down my address, go to another room (gte computers) to pull up my info, print it and then come back to the room with the printout so they can put it into the Bell Atlantic computers! Then due to the strike, It took 3 F$^#$%^$#@# weeks to get a telephone at my new residence. They do not have any cell sites in the area so my cell phone was useless during that time. My wife was about to kill, kill, kill. VERIZON SUCKS.
If you cant beat them, Sue them. Lawsuits are a tool to help keep competitors off-balance anyway.
Jeez I wonder if the Crackers even care that he quit his hob to protect them.
The Internet may Big Brothers salvation. No need to investigate anybody. Just look at their web habits and create a nice psych profile. No surfing data on the individual?...they must be technophobic. If they Spend all their time at EBAY...Money to burn. How about to much time at Slashdot....Definite intellectual...kill em all.
Explain to me why I should replace the "Commercial" software in my organization with the "Free" software. My managers refuse to believe that "Free" software has any advantage. They say it cannot be supported or trusted. After all, it's Un-American to give something away to business.
Reviewing the code is simply a good lesson on how not to write an OS.
Thats the .GOV for ya'. Spend millions to do nothing in the end. Why don't they make Bill just release all source code for Windows and that crappy Exchange mail server. Just having everyone review his poorly written/documented code would embarass M$ enough for me.
Voyager? What the hell is that? I like Roddenberry's Earth Final Conflict better. There are no decent SCI-FI series on right now!
The micropower radio stations are being contested by the big radio stations who claim that they will interfere with "legitimate" broadcast. So the FCC says yeah to the stations, however Congress may say no because of the Big station lobbyist. The fact that they are suing is a big joke. Their no better than the clowns (RIAA) they are suing. They just want to control the airwaves and force their content only.